[DEV Question] Why is this allowed?

[JunseiKei]

It would be nice to have a minimum ilevel required on any one gear for any non-leveling dungeon. Not to be confused with the minimum average ilevel we have right now. Example, A9 is an average ilevel of 230. Instead, have a minimum ilevel of 230 (Mhach / lore), 220 (prototype Midan) or even 200 (artifact-easily obtained through hunts and daily hunt bills) on every piece of gear.

Also, as much as I hate to say it, it would really be nice to lock the accessories to those particular classes. STR accessories to [melee] DoW, VIT to [tank] DoW, DEX to ['agile'] DoW, INT to [caster] DoM, and MND to [healer] DoM. This might be annoying to those spiritbonding (which I haven't seen done in eons currently), and may even limit options for glamour and PvP. It's worth it. The game isn't balanced around PvP nor how pretty you look. There are better ways to spiritbond rather than through dungeons, too. If you're lacking HP for PvE, like for raids, you have VIT melding as well as the option to move around main stat points.

Idk what the issue is. That guy was using a Novus weapon. He was likely light farming.

Nothing 3.0 gives light for 2.0 anymore than 2.0 gives light for 3.0. For 2.0 light farming, you are regulated to farming 2.X content for light. For 3.0, you're regulated to 3.X light farming.

[Serilda]

STR accessories to [melee] DoW, VIT to [tank] DoW, DEX to ['agile'] DoW, INT to [caster] DoM, and MND to [healer] DoM. This might be annoying to those spiritbonding (which I haven't seen done in eons currently), and may even limit options for glamour and PvP. It's worth it. The game isn't balanced around PvP nor how pretty you look.

I strongly disagree. Throwing the ability to customise our builds in PVP (and to a lesser extent in very specific PVE/glamour situations) aside just to cater to a handful of people playing with the wrong accessories feels like a bad trade. How often does it happen? I've never noticed anyone doing it whereas I've used the 'wrong' accessories for perfectly legitimate, non-ilvl-cheating reasons numerous times. Though most content is so easy that I genuinely wouldn't notice someone being carried (a separate issue...)